Nancy Guthrie disappearance: Ring camera video from neighbor gives investigators fresh lead
Investigators continue to search for Nancy Guthrie as she has been missing for over three weeks. Guthrie was forcibly taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the early morning hours of Feb. 1, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos previously said.
In an Instagram video on Tuesday morning, Savannah Guthrie announced a family reward of up to $1 million for the recovery of Nancy Guthrie, her mother. The family is also making a $500,000 donation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, she said.
The FBI describes the suspect seen in surveillance images and video outside Nancy Guthrie’s front door around the time she vanished as a male between 5’9” – 5’10” tall, with an average build and seen carrying a 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack” backpack.
People with information about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance are asked to contact 1-800-CALL-FBI.
FBI can enhance surveillance video, but process is time-intensive: report
Left: A still image from Ring camera video shows a vehicle passing a home near Nancy Guthrie’s on Feb. 1, the morning she is believed to have been abducted. Right: Nancy in an undated family photo. (Courtesy of Elias and Danielle Stratigouleas, Courtesy of NBC)
An FBI official said Thursday that investigators have tools to enhance surveillance footage, but each video must be reviewed in real time, NBC News reported.
Slowing down or enhancing the footage is possible, though the process is time-intensive, the official said.
In a Catalina Foothills neighborhood, a resident’s street-facing Ring camera captured 12 vehicles passing by on the morning of Nancy Guthrie’s suspected abduction.
The recordings, obtained by Fox News Digital, occurred between midnight and 6 a.m. on Feb. 1, including activity around 2:30 a.m., which is the approximate time authorities said the 84-year-old’s pacemaker last synced with her iPhone.
Some of the vehicles were recorded around 2:30 a.m., roughly when authorities said Guthrie’s pacemaker last synced with her iPhone.
Retired Pima County Search and Rescue Commander Bob Krygier said the footage is worth serious follow-up but cautioned it may ultimately prove unrelated.
“I think it’s a great little bit to follow up on if I had to guess I would say it’s probably not related,” he told Fox News Digital, explaining that investigators should first review several weeks of footage to determine whether the cars follow normal overnight routines.
Krygier noted the road where the Ring video captures is not one that drivers typically find by accident.
“It’s not just a road that you stumble upon,” he said. “You have to be very planned to go in there.”
Despite his hesitation, Krygier elevated the footage above other publicly known evidence at this point in Guthrie’s disappearance.
“I think this is the best lead probably since day one,” he said.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI has said that they have been alerted to the Ring video.
Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
